CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

Digital transformation: The implications for network operations Meeting heightened customer expectations is basically what digital transformation is all about. However, by adopting these approaches, network operations (NetOps) teams have to contend with some fundamentally different requirements and challenges.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). What is SASE?

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

For IT and network security teams, the challenge is to secure their environments, regardless of where people are working. COVID-19 has accelerated a trend toward a massively distributed enterprise moving network functionality to the edge of the network,” IDC analysts advise. Shifting locations and network connections.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Production lines, networks, call centers: every aspect of your organization is being revolutionized in different ways by technology such as AI, automation, edge computing and the many flavors of cloud. So, when you choose a managed service provider, make sure they offer extensive network, security and implementation expertise.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2021

I'm excited to share the news that Palo Alto Networks has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant WAN Edge Infrastructure ! Palo Alto Networks is recognized for its “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to Execute” and is positioned as a Leader two years in a row. New 5G Integrated SD-WAN Appliance.

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today, I am honored to announce that Palo Alto Networks CloudGenix SD-WAN is recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant (MQ). To our amazing customers who have followed Palo Alto Networks and CloudGenix, I am sure you are unsurprised by the recognition we are receiving.

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Kentik

JUNE 14, 2023

Sensors were inoperable from the firefight, and finding anything in the gaseous cloud was near impossible. Spock, spotting the fatal flaw, raised his head from the familiar viewfinder to report to his captain this new advantage. Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. User to the cloud.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

The increased adoption of cloud computing also poses inherent challenges. All these variables force the need for organizations to transform their security postures to protect against cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities. According to LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2022 report, people want the freedom to work where and when they want.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2023

For some that means getting a head start in filling this year’s most in-demand roles, which range from data-focused to security-related positions, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2023 IT salary report. Recruiting in the tech industry remains strong, according to the report. The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 22, 2020

Top Issues Include WAN Complexity, SD-WAN Adoption and Migration to Managed Services; Future Plans Include AI/ML, 5G and IoT Adoption SAN MATEO, Calif. The post Aryaka’s Fourth Annual State of the WAN Report Reveals 2020 Insights From 1000+ Global Enterprises appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Here are some of the insights they shared: On Where They Are in Their Digital Transformation Journeys Cloud migration and hybrid cloud strategies continue to be priorities among CIOs and IT leaders, but their experiences vary. We are also moving some very critical business-facing apps to the cloud.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

9, Gartner named Palo Alto Networks a Leader for the ninth consecutive time in its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for 2020. The ML-Powered Next Generation Firewall sets a new standard for network security so that customers can extend protection throughout their enterprises and into the future.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 21, 2023

Palo Alto Networks has been recognized as the sole Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE. Today, Palo Alto Networks® was recognized as the only Leader in the inaugural 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE. These offerings use a cloud-centric architecture and are delivered by one vendor.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 billion by 2021, according to a new report from IHS Markit. Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Facebook uses Open/R to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies.

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Tenable

JULY 11, 2019

Tenable Research has discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in both Citrix SD-WAN Center and the SD-WAN appliance itself that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to compromise the underlying operating systems of each. In the SD-WAN appliance, an unauthenticated SQL injection can be used to bypass authentication.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This week, VMware announced plans to acquire SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. Google released a new Andromeda SDN to reduce its cloud latency. And Energy giant Chevron selected Microsoft as its preferred cloud provider. Here are those headlines and more: VMware acquires VeloCloud as it moves deeper into networking (TechCrunch).

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Megaport

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the recent Gartner report entitled “How to Optimize Network Connectivity into Public Cloud Providers,” Gartner finds that “I&O leaders’ requirements for WAN-cloud connectivity are changing, which requires a greater degree of agility and multicloud interworking than their current solutions can support.”

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Kentik

JULY 28, 2021

NetOps teams have quickly learned the benefits of hosting applications in the cloud. A tiny voice was asking, “How will we monitor packet loss and connection latency, hop-by-hop, when using cloud applications?”. Packet Loss Causes Problems with Cloud Applications. The cloud is made up of thousands of routers.

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taos

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Practice Leader & Senior Networking Consultant Where does it make sense?—?cost-wise to invest in WAN Optimization equipment? How do we in good conscience advise a client on whether they should invest the money in WAN Optimization equipment, and at which of their sites? First Published: April 27, 2015, B y Marc Ferreria?—?Practice

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Palo Alto Networks

JULY 15, 2021

At Palo Alto Networks, we are prepared to help retailers meet today’s toughest cybersecurity challenges with a robust set of end-to-end security platforms – whether you’re facing digital skimming, ransomware, bot attacks, IoT, mobile app hijacking, or many other forms of attack. We pride ourselves on being well-respected in the industry.

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Megaport

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the recent Gartner report entitled “How to Optimize Network Connectivity into Public Cloud Providers,” Gartner finds that “I&O leaders’ requirements for WAN-cloud connectivity are changing, which requires a greater degree of agility and multicloud interworking than their current solutions can support.”

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In the early hours of Wednesday, January 25, Microsoft’s public cloud suffered a major outage that disrupted their cloud-based services and popular applications such as Sharepoint, Teams, and Office 365. Microsoft uses a few ASNs to originate routes for its cloud services. We touch on this phenomenon again in the next section.

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Tenable

APRIL 11, 2019

Tenable Research has discovered a critical vulnerability in Citrix SD-WAN Center that could lead to remote code execution. On April 10, Citrix released a security bulletin for CVE-2019-10883, an operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability in Citrix SD-WAN Center 10.2.x and NetScaler SD-WAN Center 10.0.x Background.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. Instead, it is one link in a chain of ISPs, cloud platforms and others who connect to the enterprise via the internet.

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Megaport

JANUARY 10, 2022

IDC predicted 2021 would be the year of multicloud, and as businesses expanded and embraced a cloud-first approach, this prediction proved accurate, with Megaport reporting a record increase of multicloud services like Megaport Cloud Router in Q4 FY2021.

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Megaport

JANUARY 10, 2022

IDC predicted 2021 would be the year of multicloud, and as businesses expanded and embraced a cloud-first approach, this prediction proved accurate, with Megaport reporting a record increase of multicloud services like Megaport Cloud Router in Q4 FY2021.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Today we announced an evolutionary leap forward for network operations (NetOps), solving for today’s biggest network challenge: effectively managing hybrid complexity and scale, at speed. From the very beginning, the Kentik Platform was designed to collect the most granular data from terabit-scale networks.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

Network flow data is quickly emerging as an essential source of data for analyzing network performance, optimizing infrastructure, and detecting malicious traffic. This wasn’t the case just a couple of years ago when EMA issued its Network Management Megatrends 2014 report. Flow data for WAN monitoring.

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Kentik

APRIL 9, 2018

While we’re still in the opening phase of the hybrid multi-cloud chess game, I would like to take a look ahead at what enterprises embracing the cloud can expect in what promises to be a complex endgame posing many new technical challenges for IT managers. What will happen when users report that an application seems “too slow”?

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

EMA analyst Shamus McGillicuddy recently published a report on the state of advanced network analytics. The report is full of interesting takeaways from reasons for deployment to use cases after analytics are up and running. What’s driving network analytics? External cloud (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, etc.) (23%).

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Kentik

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We highlighted the great value-add that Kentik’s service provider customers can now deliver to their end-customers with real-time network data insights. The “My Kentik” portal is a built-in feature of the Kentik platform that enables curated, self-service network traffic visibility for downstream customers. How “My Kentik” can help.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Delivering NPM for Cloud and Digital Operations. On May 27 of this year, Gartner Research Director Sanjit Ganguli released a research note titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Leave Gaps in Cloud Monitoring.” In the note, Ganguli makes a number of key points in explaining the gap in cloud monitoring.

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Kentik

APRIL 26, 2017

We’re launching a weekly blog series called “News in Networking.” Kentik CTO Dan Ellis is on a panel today on how traditional tools are inadequate for modern networks. This TechTarget’s SearchSDN article says you can also expect to hear Amazon and Microsoft talking about barriers to enterprise cloud adoption. [

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

comdivision and VMware show how leading-edge cloud solutions help customers gain a competitive lead in their industries For more than 25 years, comdivision has drawn from its deep well of infrastructure knowledge to help organizations gain business value from leading-edge technologies.

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Ivanti

JUNE 20, 2023

Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) solutions enable such organizations to identify all their assets — including those that are unauthorized and unmanaged — so they can be secured, managed or even removed from the enterprise network. 4: Implement network segmentation and microsegmentation.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2023

For many organizations large and small, the COVID-19 pandemic was the tipping point for cloud adoption. Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] However, the transformative benefits of cloud cannot be realized (or may even be negated!)

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There are many sources of vulnerabilities within our critical infrastructure, including the typically unsegmented networks, open policies and the software vulnerabilities within the often unpatched/unpatchable legacy systems themselves (e.g. This is an important consideration when calculating risk. HMI, PLC, ICS, SCADA, DCS, MES).

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